>>11614205> I just find math to extremely boring. Perhaps due to how it is taught in school. I agree with you wholeheartedly. If someone wanted to intentionally turn off as many young students to mathematics as possible, they would develop curricula exactly as they are now. Math isn't torture, it's ecstasy. Math isn't about numbers and formulas, it's about ideas. Math, properly understood, is not the robotic ritual of solving for x. It is by far the most creative, most rewarding activity available to human beings. Dig down deeply enough into anything at all, and you'll find math at its core. Reality is how math feels. Like you, I wish the general public was at least aware that math is not schoolwork. If you had a bad experience growing up, that's your teacher's fault, not yours.
> The reward for completing one problem is... another problem! At least humanities have a satisfactory payoff of a completed workThat's one perspective. Another might be that mathematicians will always have something to do, that the depths of truth are inexhaustible and always open to plumbing from inquiring minds. At the end my lifetime, at least, I expect to look out over the vast ocean of math and marvel at the infinity of things we still don't know, grateful that I and the greater mathematical community was able to grasp a small part of the wider tapestry.
